The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.2

c12.2

The general name for this branch was *Top-khānah* (*top*, cannon, *khānah*, house, division). Every department connected with the artillery was included under the one name; it comprized, 1) a manufacturing department; 2) a magazine or ordnance department, in both of which the imperial *Khānsāmān*, or Lord Steward, had the superior control over the Daroghah or Mīr Ātash; 3) the field artillery in actual use; and 4) the guns in use in the fortresses. In these last two subdivisions the Mīr Ātash seems to have been entirely independent of the *Khānsāmān*.